Canada ‘is not state 51,’, the ambassador protests in the middle of the threat of Trump’s rate

Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations is dismissing President Donald Trump’s argument that the nation would benefit from joining the United States.

“By the way, we are not the state 51,” said the UN Ambassador Bob Rae “Special Report”

“We are a sovereign and independent country. Our leader deserves to be treated with respect, and we deserve to be treated with respect. This is how we want to be seen.”

Trump has repeated the idea of Assimilation of Canada For months, arguing that absorbing the nation would benefit both economies amid imminent tariff threats.

Trump agrees to stop tariffs on Canada in exchange for a greater border application

“Canada should become our appreciated 51st State“Trump wrote on Sunday about Truth Social.” Much lower taxes, a much better military protection for the people of Canada, and there are no tariffs! “

Trump agreed on Monday to stop additional tariffs on Canadian imports For 30 days after a call with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who made some concessions to temporarily avoid the levies.

The leaders spoke hours before the additional 25% tariffs came into force in Canadian goods that entered the United States. In an X publication, Trudeau said that Canada will implement a border plan of $ 1.3 billion and will appoint a fentanyl tsar.

“Tariffs completely alter markets and alter employment, and alter jobs on both sides of the border,” RAE replied.

“There is no space to deceive the integrity of this border. In any way. And tariffs are a great threat to economic security of both our country and yours.”

“Let’s talk about the long -term commercial relationship, but let’s not continue using tariffs as something you think you can play, without understanding the consequences of that for our both economies.”

Mexico agrees to display 10,000 troops on the American border in exchange for a rate pause

According to the United States Census Office, the United States had a commercial deficit of $ 64.3 billion with Canada in 2023. But Trump states that the real number is much higher.

“Canada has been very abusive of the United States for many years, “said the president on Sunday.” They have been very hard with oil and energy. They do not allow our agricultural products to enter, essentially. They do not allow many things, and we allow everything to arrive as a unique sense street. “

Ambassador RAE retreated that statement.

“When it comes to the general economic relationship, when it comes to services, when it comes to tourism, when it comes to the number of Canadians who are investing in several ways in the United States: it is a situation of win-win between our two Countries, “he said.

“A group says there are 60 billion; the president says that one day is 100 billion, the next day is 150 billion. Come on, give us a break.”

Despite the new agreement, Ambassador RAE remains distrustful of Trump’s commercial tactics.

“We are willing and we want to have a serious discussion about the renewal of the current trade agreement … which must arrive in 2026. But I think that continuing to threaten the tariffs at this time is a terrible idea. It makes your country poorer, markets, the markets They decrease, security decreases. “

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Trump and Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum reached a similar agreement to stop tariffs on Monday after what Trump described as a “very friendly conversation.”

Hours before the tariffs came into force, Sheinbaum announced that Mexico would deploy 10,000 troops on the border between the United States and Mexico.

The United States also implemented a 10% rate on Chinese imports from Tuesday. In response, China announced retaliation tariffs in selected American products and launched an antitrust investigation in Google.

Louis Casiano de Fox News contributed to this report.